Firefighters work to remove a man that was trapped overnight in a wrecked car on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard of the wrecked vehicle by a nearby homeowner that went to investigate the accident scene. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com) less

Firefighters work to remove a man that was trapped overnight in a wrecked car on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard ... more

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A wrecked car is shown where a man was trapped overnight on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard of the wrecked vehicle by a nearby homeowner that went to investigate the accident scene. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com) less

A wrecked car is shown where a man was trapped overnight on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard of the wrecked ... more

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Firefighters work to remove a man that was trapped overnight in a wrecked car on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard of the wrecked vehicle by a nearby homeowner that went to investigate the accident scene. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com) less

Firefighters work to remove a man that was trapped overnight in a wrecked car on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard ... more

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Firefighters work to remove a man that was trapped overnight in a wrecked car on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard of the wrecked vehicle by a nearby homeowner that went to investigate the accident scene. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com) less

Firefighters work to remove a man that was trapped overnight in a wrecked car on the edge of a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 near Lake City Way in Seattle. The injured man was discovered under the dashboard ... more

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A homeowner came outside his house near Lake City Way on Tuesday morning to discover that a man was trapped in a wrecked car on the edge of a ravine.

At first Lake City resident John Shearer thought the Audi was abandoned. But when he neared the wrecked vehicle he heard a man ask for help. The man was trapped in the car, the force of the wreck appeared to have thrown him under the dashboard.

The 67 year-old man, cold and injured, said he spent the night trapped in the crashed car.

Firefighters had to cut off the roof of the car and the steering wheel to free the man, said Seattle Fire Department Spokesman Kyle Moore. The car was stabilized with ropes so it wouldn’t slide farther down the ravine into Thornton Creek below.

The man was transported to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition.